Crowdfunding site allows renewable energy projects and cleantech companies to raise debt or equity, opening up the renewable energy industry to a wider investor pool. “Raising money has been a huge impediment to the growth of the capital-intensive renewable energy...

East African states have been asked to invest more resources in the development of renewable power projects like solar energy where the region has a better comparative advantage as compared to hydro power which is more expensive to finance. Development partners say...

Saudi Arabia will “within weeks” start issuing tenders for a big solar and wind power programme that envisages investment worth $30bn-$50bn by 2030, the country’s oil minister said recently. The oil-rich kingdom was also in the early stages of feasibility and design...

The strong growth in large scale renewable project financing in Australia in 2016 could be just the beginning of a major wave of investment. This is the prognosis of Bloomberg New Energy Finance associate Leonard Quong, who adds that if key policy settings remain in...

In 2015, clean energy investment set a new record with $329 billion flowing to the sector, even as fossil fuel prices plummeted. But only a fraction of those dollars came from institutional investors, according to a new white paper from World Economic Forum. Of the...